Directional Oil Sliding Surfaces with Hierarchical Anisotropic Groove Microstructures

Abstract

A robust directional oil sliding surface is presented by utilizing re-entrant micro-groove arrays inspired from the microgrooves of rice leaf. The overhang micro-groove arrays are shown to provide two primary goals of “omniphobicty” and “anisotropic sliding” with DI water ( = 72.1 mN/m) as well as mineral oil ( = 28 mN/m) and conventional photoresist. As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors. Such materials are peer reviewed and may be re-organized for online delivery, but are not copy-edited or typeset. Technical support issues arising from supporting information (other than missing files) should be addressed to the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.